User talk:NCurse/Archive1

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WikiProject History of Biology
Hello Bertalan! I wish I knew how to say that in the Magyar tongue. I've made a few additions to WikiProject History of Biology. Thanks for signing up. The project I'm currently most maddened about, and have no idea where to begin with, is rewriting the intro paragraph to history of biology. If you can do that, do it, and let me know, and I'll be happy to clean up the errors due to the English language's bizarre rules of grammar, punctuation, and spelling. --arkuat (talk) 01:49, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Angol Wiki CD-re javaslataim
Ide írom, mert egyszerűbb a linkelés. Remélem értem, miről van szó, csak még keveset jelöltek.

Ezek mind bővek és jónak látszanak
Natural sciences
 * Edward Teller
 * Eugene Wigner
 * Leó Szilárd
 * Albert Szent-Györgyi

Mathematics
 * Paul Erdős
 * John von Neumann esetleg technology, de inkább math.

Ezek rövidebbek, döntsd el, kellenek-e
Engineering & Technology:
 * Charles Simonyi
 * Theodore von Karman

Natural sciences
 * Anyos Jedlik
 * Nicholas Kurti
 * Dennis Gabor
 * Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mathematics
 * Hans Selye
 * John George Kemeny
 * George Pólya
 * Paul Halmos
 * János Bolyai


 * László Almásy ebben van egy megjegyzés, hogy bele kellene egy másik cikkből a fontos részeket rakni, de különben jónak látszik. (geography???)

Wikipedia 1.0
Thanks for signing on for the review team! As you guessed, right now the main work that needs to be done is to review articles carefully so we can get a good number of important, quality article on the test CD. Version 0.5 nominations is certainly getting a lot of articles listed, I'd really appreciate your help in clearing the backlog. I notice you list biology and medicine as interests- well, those two articles in fact need reviewing! Seriously, any help would be most welcome.

Other work looming is on Work via Wikiprojects, we are about to start contacting all of the projects once more. We now have a bot which is using talk page categorisation to help automate listing of articles, see the test listing summary. We hope to get more projects using this system for tracking/assessing their articles, so we at WP1.0 can easily keep track of 20,000 articles without getting swamped!

Incidentally, I visited Hungary in 1994 with my wife (then new girlfriend, the trip still has happy memories for us). We taught English at a camp near Lake Balaton, lots of fun. I felt like Budapest was a place I could enjoy living in. Thanks and welcome to WP1.0, Walkerma 18:21, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I've replied to your questions on my talk page. Walkerma 01:14, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

New Idea for 0.5 Version Nominations reviewing
Hey, I made a layout for my idea of reviewing at User:Chcknwnm/Sandbox. If you think it's appropriate it should probably go to Version 0.5 Nominations/Reviews. Anyway, let me know what you think, and feel free to say that it will cause too much extra work or isn't appropriate for this project...just looking for feedback. I'll send this message to all the current reviewers to get their imput. Later, Ch u ck(척뉴넘) 06:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Portal nomination
I nominated portal:medicine for featured portal, thought I'd let you know. --Steven Fruitsmaak 18:32, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Many thanks! I am new to the Medicine Portal and I thought it best to leave that to someone who knows better the Portal. Anyway, I wasn't sure if the Medicine COTW was still working... --Francisco Valverde 19:53, 29 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I've worked and work on hungarian wiki but some days I started things here. I maintain medicine portal and now I think I will wikiproject medicine. If you want to help, it'd very very kind of you. Let's work together on that. :)


 * I am no medicine expert, but I will try to help in whatever I can. I am interested in the History of Science point of view. I have created this tag for thanking the people who voted for this article... and well, also for you.

Perhaps we could include it in the list of tags for the MCOTW? --Francisco Valverde 19:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but one question. When the next candidate becomes the new MCOTW, will the template in the talk pages of those who voted for the first candidate, that is Medicine in Ancient Greece change...? I mean, that this template will be for those who voted for each week's MCOTW.--Francisco Valverde 04:32, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


 * You're right. I fixed it with subst: tag. Now it will show the collaboration that is voted on the week you put this template on a user's talk page. :) NCursework 11:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Med portal
If you look very carefully, you'll see that some portion of the area around thumbnails is a different color than the background of the portal boxes. To see more vividly what is happening, look here. The background outside the thumbnail boxes should all look gray, but because of the thumbnail problem, the background it mottled. Thus, we avoid thumbnails in portals, unless the background color (generally specified in the box-header subpage) is "transparent".--ragesoss 19:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm glad to see someone taking charge of that portal. You probably won't get support for featuring the Medicine portal until either you've developed a several month track-record of updates, or you put future content on an automatic rotation and create several months worth in advance.  If you've got the time and enthusiasm now, you should implement a CURRENTWEEK-based system for the article and picture.  Whichever route you pick, good luck!--ragesoss 20:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Take a look at the system on Portal:Trains. The content for the selected article is "" .  The CURRENTWEEK and CURRENTYEAR templates produce the relevent numbers, so it ends up as  "/Featured article/Week, 2024".  Then you just create many of the future weekly pages, and it will rotate them automatically, and the archive page leads to the list of all the weeks.  It's a bit tedious getting it set up, but the result is nice.--ragesoss 14:22, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Science is now the COTF
Thanks, Walkerma 01:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Medicine portal
I'm referring to giving the source of the picture in text below it, so that readers can see it without clicking through to the image description page (see the picture sections on Portal:War, Portal:Aviation, Portal:Australia, etc. for examples). Hope that helps! Kirill Lokshin 13:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Best thing to do would be to check the Commons page and grab the original source of the image from there; but if you can't find it, I suppose a plain link to Commons would be better than nothing ;-) Kirill Lokshin 16:47, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Now that you've switched to automatic content rotation, make sure you always have the next one ready.--ragesoss 02:05, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

You might want to add your name to the support list?--Steven Fruitsmaak 17:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Can I? I'm the maintainer. :) Where should I add my name? Thanks. NCursework 19:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

You could, although it's clear that you do, so it actually doesn't matter a lot. It's the miniature list with support in the discussions about the portal... I can't 'cause I submitted it.--Steven Fruitsmaak 22:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: WikiBirthday
Thank you! Kirill Lokshin 13:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Admin Coaching
I'd be happy to help you if you'd like; but seeing as you're already an admin (and a bureaucrat!) on several other projects, I'm not sure what sort of coaching you'd need. ;-) Kirill Lokshin 15:32, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The number has been steadily rising over the past year. Anything below 1000 edits will basically fail for that reason alone; I would wait until you have 2000–3000 edits, to make sure the issue isn't brought up.  On the other hand, you do have substantial experience outside en:, so people might ignore a lower edit count. Kirill Lokshin 15:40, 8 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The featured portals are promoted a lot less frequently than featured articles are; I've seen things sit around for a month or more before they were actually promoted. Kirill Lokshin 16:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Soil
This is a new wikiproject covering about 250 articles. See here for the projects article assessment format. Any pointers or advice you can offer would be appreciated. -- Paleorthid 15:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Contacting WikiProjects
Hi Bertalan,

You mentioned contacting WikiProjects on my user talk page. Thanks for giving the WP:Science folks a "prod". In fact, we at the Work via Wikiprojects group is now beginning its "second round" of contacting of WikiProjects, beginning with the Arts, Literature and Language projects (they were done first in the 1st round). If you want to help out with that, see the list of WikiProjects for an overview and the Arts tables for more details. For details of plans for round 2 see here, and a typical posting is listed here. If you are only interested in contacting the Science projects, let me know and I'll alert you when we start on that (probably in early July). If you want to focus on WP:0.5, I fully understand, there are plenty of nominations to review! Thanks, Walkerma 04:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Medicine
Hi there,

how are the exams going? I've had 2 until now, with 4 to go, so I won't be helping out with the portal much, except for today. I listed myself as a maintainer in the portal directory, so as of now I guess we are working together on this.

Here's what I did just now, thought I might inform you so we agree and don't do double work.
 * I've transferred the formatting changes by cj to the subsequent week article.
 * I've created "Nominations" pages for the selected articles and archives. Saw it on Portal:Food, and I now how I felt at first about editing a portal, so it might lower the threshold for interaction, I hope. There are also archives for discussions in the future.
 * I moved the "did you know archive" from "Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Medicine/Did you know Archive" to "Portal:Medicine/Did you know archive"
 * I've made some changes to the selected picture archive and selected article archive.
 * Created new "did you knows", and prepared keratoconus for selected article in week 26.

Think that's it. Good luck with your studies!

--Steven Fruitsmaak 22:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi! halfway past those exams here...


 * I've redesigned the categories, thought cuberjunkie made good suggestions.
 * I've added nephrology and NHS wikiprojects.
 * For me it wasn't necessary you used the nominations procedure for the selected article... I think of it more as a means of other people being able to contact us.
 * I've created a template for ex-DYK articles, and a category for them. Pick one of the articles and check out the template.

ciao, --Steven Fruitsmaak 23:57, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Great! :) The nomination process: well, I thought somebody should strat the whole procedure, but Ok. :) It must be featured now... NCursework 08:45, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Just letting you now that I'm leaving for the holidays until August, so I can't help out with the portal... enjoy your holidays! --Steven Fruitsmaak 16:01, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
 * PS: I created Template:MedportalDYK

Featured articles
Szervusz! I am interested in a wide variety of topics, so it's hard to say...I studied the Habsburg Empire in university, so I can perhaps contribute there...I am also very interested in business/economics/finance topics (I think good explanations of many economics topics is hard to find)...I would also like to help counter the systemic bias of Wikipedia (which is why I try to avoid editing only United States-related articles)....and, in addition, I like writing about organizations/companies/agencies...so, it's a pretty wide list of things I'm interested in...any suggestions are appreciated! Paul 18:52, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Great! I'll pitch in and help. Paul 19:05, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I LOVED Hungary
Hello, Bertalan. I loved my time in Hungary. I spent one month in Budapest getting my certificate to teach english as a foriegn language at a small school called Tudomany Nyelvisokola in the Buda section of the city across from the northern part of Margit Island. I wish I could have stayed longer. I will definately visit the city again some time in the future. I lived with a very nice Hungarian couple during my stay. The man, Nagy, owned a small aeroplane and gave me a tour of the entire country by air! Great fun, but a bit frightening! :) As for what I would like regarding the featured article director position, it is not up to me, but up to consensus. In my opinion, though, there should be a 4 person committee appointed for a set term of a year or two with the committee chaired by one of its members on a rotating basis every 6 months. If this is not workable, perhaps the FA director could remain as a one person position with a term limit of one year. Either way, official guidelines should be written describing the FA director's role and duties. Regards, John --Jayzel 15:25, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Please watch
Please watch amygdala. Thank you. Koalabyte 01:57, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Unused images in hu:
Hi. Here you have an incomplete list, w:hu:User:Emijrp/Commons, my script is working :P. Notice your community. --Emijrp 20:35, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that in two days or so, very soon :P, because I'm doing the same project in other languages :), fr, it, pt... --Emijrp 15:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Please, delete complete entries, dont strike. I have improved algorithm and now the bot produces almost zero errors. --Emijrp 15:46, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Tourette and genetic project
Hi, NC. Thanks for the note. I hesitated to sign my name to the project, as I have no medical background, and feel I won't be able to contribute much beyond the TS article. What do you think? Also, I've still got a major chunk of the TS article to write (under screening/prevention, I plan to add all of the issues of screening for comorbid conditions, cover more info about the comorbids, and indicate "preventative" aspects leading towards better prognosis). Let me know, Sandy 18:43, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, will add my name, and will try to do what I can. Sandy 18:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

My Userpage
Nah, I started fooling with the damn thing, and it only made it worse for me. I know, it stuffs up with firefox. Sorry! ....(Complain)(Let us to it pell-mell) 07:39, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

AfD List of genetic and rare diseases
NCurse, can you have a look at this? Articles for deletion/List of genetic and rare diseases Thanks, Sandy 12:17, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Aortic Dissection
I commend you on improving the article! I think we probably need to cite it a bit more before FA, but it's almost there. I'll help when I get a chance. Cheers -- Samir  धर्म 01:55, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Portals
Hi & thanks for the suggestions :) The right side was originally longer, with 2 pictures but then it was decided that we'll have only 1 selected picture, not 2. It looks better now. I added an Associated Wikimedia box, but it is pathetically small, as we have no pages in Wikinews or Wikiquote and I could add only 2 links.

what is a wikiproject exactly?

By examples do you mean that I should put there some ugly red links for articles which no one will ever feel like writing? :-)

I couldn't figure out what this currentyear/day system is, does it have something to do with archives? I haven't even thought of archiving yet (though I tried to indicate updates in the page history so that they'll be easier to find later).

Any ideas and help would be welcomed since I still absolutely don't know anything about portals :D

– Alensha 寫 词 19:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

...and now you will kill me because I forgot that we do have a Wikiquote and it's maintained by you... – Alensha 寫 词 20:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

ours is still a small portal and there aren't too many contributors... we don't have any műhelys and now, and in the early life of the portal it'll be enough to update twice a month, I think... maybe later we'll update it weekly if we have enough contributors :) – Alensha 寫 词 14:35, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK
Hi there,

live from India! damn this pc is slow...

Ive seen you added some stub categories I didnt even knew existed, gonna check up on those.

I wanted to tell you that in the last DYKs, I tended to make shorter ones, because the longer they get the more they tend to disturb the layout... Dont know if you agree, its just a suggestion.

grtz from udaipur, --Steven Fruitsmaak 14:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I will return July 29th. If there are no further bomb attacks :-s Ill try to promote, those 1 billion indians could come in handy :-)

Medical Genetics Project
I'm not frustrated or disillusioned or have any problems with the medical genetics project. I'm simply a genetic statistician in a non-medical atmosphere. The way you are going is just fine for medical geneticists (like the title suggests!). I'm more of a human geneticist. I'm sorry if I caused a problem, I just felt that my interests are different from the medical aspects of human genetics (For example, I have over a dozen human genetics texts on my shelf but only one on medical genetics — and old 1973 textbook by Thompson and Thompson, and zero on medicine). Good luck with the project! TedTalk/Contributions 20:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

re: Stub sorting
You're most kind, thanks. :) Alai 19:17, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Genetics cleanup
Per your request, I have created Pages needing attention/Genetics and plugged it into WikiProject Medical Genetics/Open Tasks. It's just been updated by Pearle, and should in the future every few weeks or so. There is a place to add the genetics Portal if and when it is launched; if you do that, it will be automatically scanned to help find more genetics articles in need of attention. Congratulations on starting the Genetics WikiProject, and thanks for all your medicine work! -- Beland 04:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:Medicine
The medicine trophy box keeps cluttering up the layout, maybe you could tackle this?--Steven Fruitsmaak | Talk 07:34, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

On WikiProject Medicine, it keeps overlapping with general disease category, both on my pc at home and on this one in Goa! Still enjoying, but after a month I've kinda seen it, and we're heading home...--Steven Fruitsmaak | Talk 07:48, 25 July 2006 (UTC)